‘Analogue preservation: family album’ is an ongoing deconstruction of the enormous digital photo collection of my children that has built up over the past twelve years. I have become interested in my relationship with digital images: the oversaturation; the quantity over quality; the visual clutter; the disconnect of capturing a moment rather than truly experiencing it by being in the moment.  Where photographs once used to function primarily as memorial objects, these days they have shifted into a communication tool used in such unprecedented volumes. Whilst acknowledging that digital images have transformed our lives in such powerful ways, I began to consider what might have been lost in this digital deluge.

This series adopts a purposefully slow and mindful approach to that visual overload: sorting through digital images and choosing which moments to preserve by utilising analogue techniques of monotype, words and simple context information. This series adopts an unapologetically personal, and intentionally nostalgic stance, utilising a purposefully slow form of attention to reclaim slowness and those fleeting digitised moments.

Analogue Preservation #7 was exhibited at Cromer Artspace, August 2024